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Florida State Lacks Same Toughness That Won the Seminoles an ACC TitlePosted by Jimmy Kelley on January 28th, 2013
Jimmy Kelley is an ACC correspondent for Rush the Court. Follow him on Twitter @DevilsinDurham
Pat Riley once spoke about the "disease of more." When a team wins a championship, everyone wants something more. More attention, more minutes, more responsibility. When Florida State won the ACC Tournament last season, they did so with a hungry core of experienced players who were committed to playing defense and being tougher that anyone else in the league. With Michael Snaer back to lead a group of 10 returning players, the Seminoles were expected to contend for another ACC crown this season. But without the same unselfish hunger that was personified by their battle-tested center, Bernard James, the Seminoles have been a team instead represented by the effort that saw them run out of the gym in Miami on Sunday night.
Sunday was just the latest letdown in a season that has had far more valleys than peaks. An opening night loss to South Alabama at home should have been a red flag, but was written off as an aberration. Then three straight losses to Minnesota, Mercer and Florida revealed that this team was headed for a much different fate than its predecessor. Without James, the 'Noles lack the same defensive prowess that helped them overachieve last season. Led by their senior big man, Florida State had the #5 field goal defense (38.1 percent) in the nation, were #7 in blocks (213), #41 in total rebounds (1,273), #44 in defensive rebounds (869), and #66 in scoring defense (62.9 PPG) last season. Without James anchoring them on the defensive end this year, those rankings have risen to #121 in field goal defense (41.2 percent), #36 in blocks, #283 in total rebounds, #271 in defensive rebounds, and #93 in scoring defense (66.8 PPG).

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Ah, where did it all go wrong?
So you had The Matrix back in '99, which everyone pretty much liked and/or came over all anal about (if you're that way inclined). Blah blah blah sold a few copies blah blah "we had a trilogy already planned" blah. So yeah, the Wacha-ma-call'em Bros (TM) did good. Who knew Keanu could like even seem to be OK at acting? Even the bits of dumbass gen-x pretence were overlookable. SCORE.
And fair's fair, Reloaded weren't no Unbreakable or nowt. OK it had that fuckin horrible bit where Morphine was like embarrassing 'imself by giving this "we will fight on the beaches" speech thingummy with his belly hanging out (err… "costume…!!!!") and all that weak catch all 'philosophical' crap about all the ghosts and vampires and that being viruses. And the script was cack. But it wasn't dick. Cos there was the motorway stuff and the cool baddies and and… y'know.
But this one is. It's dick. It's fucking arse. It's less good than a paedophilic vicar trapped in a playpen on conscience-blockers. OK so let's start with what isn't shit about Revolutions. Oh, wait… there are no redeeming features. The script was clearly written by a fuckin six year old with learning difficulties, there are no good fight scenes, the acting is abysmal, the CG is poor and all the action happens in the fuckin dark. I mean what's the point?
The (bleeuhhh!) love stories are so uninvolving it's like watching Pearl Harbour on E. People die. NO ONE CARES. But they have to drag it all out into all these 'meaningful' fuckin speeches about how love is eternal and how "I believe in the one" and all that. So instead of being unmoving it's actually really fuckin annoying.
Everything that happens is soooo predictable. Y'know that irritating kid out of the second one that follows Keanu around? Well guess what, he does something really important, just like they said 'e would. Genius. Oh and they spend about twenty minutes making up this bollocks explanation for why the Oracle isn't the same bloody actor as the last one. All they needed to say was the other one read the fuckin script and dropped dead rather than be involved.
To top it all off, they don't even bother explaining what the fuck's going on. None of the story lines are resolved and they don't even try to come up with a reason why Neo can blow shit up just by thinking about it in the 'real' world.
I know you'll all go and see this whatever I fuckin say, but don't say I didn't tell you it was gonna be whack. Got it?
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Abu Dhabi is fast becoming a fascinating cultural capital, the upmarket answer to nearby Dubai. A beautiful All Inclusive beach destination and an action-packed place to take the kids, it's also a gateway to the desert: the enigmatically named 'Empty Quarter'.
The capital of the United Arab Emirates is a modern wonder. A town founded on pearl-diving, it's now a city made rich from oil. The desert landscape is a blank canvas for development and the horizon is carved up by inspirational skyscrapers. Visit giant mosques and water parks and a hotel in a £2 billion palace. In a land built from riches: oil, gold, pearls, jewels and oud, book flights to Abu Dhabi and you'll find that the most precious experiences you'll have will be those that move you: contemplating the huge, mosaic-clad mosque, and finding yourself humbled by the famous Arabian hospitality.
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Unlocking the brain's full potential
Eva Vico Varela, neuroscience doctoral student at McGill University
For more than two decades, deep brain electrical pulses have been helping people with Parkinson's disease control tremors. Researchers now suspect that such pulses could also improve memory circuits in those with Alzheimer's.
However, there is a hitch: doctors know the frequency, interval period and duration of electrical pulses that most effectively control tremors, but not those that might affect memory.
Eva Vico Varela, a neuroscience doctoral student at McGill University, means to find out.
Funded in part by the Alzheimer Society Research Program, Vico Varela will spend the next year studying deep brain stimulation in mice genetically engineered to have Alzheimer's disease. She will scan their brains as she experiments with electrical pulses of different frequencies, intervals and duration.
"I want to see if changes in brain wave frequencies and strength associated with memory retrieval or consolidation are happening in the mice," she says.
Vico Varela will also put the mice through a series of memory tests before and after the deep brain stimulation.
She will apply pulses to the fornix, a C-shaped structure buried deep in the brain. The fornix is made of axons, which are long fibres that extend from brain cells and carry outgoing messages.
The fornix acts as the main link out of the hippocampus to the rest of the brain. This is a crucial link since the hippocampus plays an important role in helping us consolidate short and long term memory and in spatial memory.
A previous study of healthy rats treated with electrical pulses to the fornix showed that it improved their memories. Vico Varela's work will show whether the same might be said of mice with Alzheimer's disease and, if so, exactly how the pulses should be applied.
Deep brain stimulation in people with Alzheimer's is still in clinical trials, but Vico Varela's results could help fine tune the way researchers apply the pulses.
"This treatment wouldn't be a cure. It may not make your memory better," she says. "But it may slow the decline, which would make a person's quality of life better."


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ST. LOUIS, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Tim Kennedy's slap shot with 7 minutes left in the third period Tuesday boosted San Jose over St. Louis 2-1, ending a seven-game Sharks losing streak.
Kennedy's blast from the left wing beat Jake Allen and handed San Jose its first victory since Jan. 31.
Joe Thornton also found the net while Antti Niemi turned aside 25-of-26 shots in the victory.
Allen finished with 23 saves for the Blues, who saw their three-game winning streak come to an end.
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Congreve: The Most Elegant, Subtle Writer of His Time
The Works of William Congreve
Shortly after the opening of John Vanbrugh's comedy of 1697, The Provoked Wife, two ladies discuss what they would do if they discovered their husbands were unfaithful. The first lady declares that she would pay him back in his own coin, but the second protests that we are taught to return good for evil. On thinking this over, the first lady remarks, "That may be a mistake in the translation." The new independence of women could affect even biblical criticism.
This registers an important change in the relation of the sexes. Women could now openly claim the same entitlement to sexual pleasure that had always been taken for granted by men. Nowhere is this shown so clearly as in the English comedies of the last quarter of the seventeenth century—perhaps because women were at last permitted to be seen on the stage. It is not until the accession of Charles II in 1660 that female parts were taken by actresses (in Shakespeare's time, even Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth were played by boys or young men.) Now some male parts were often played by women and the practice was very popular (one could appreciate female anatomy better in male attire than in the ladies' robes then current).
William Congreve comes late in the development of a new kind of comedy with a much more open treatment of sexual matters. The new edition of his works, edited by D.F. McKenzie, does him full justice. It identifies and explains every topical allusion and informs us of every word that has slightly changed its meaning during the intervening centuries. All that Congreve wrote is printed in an accurate text, and everything written or said about him during his lifetime is made available. His debt to his predecessors, including Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, is acknowledged and displayed.
Of all the British writers of his time, Congreve was the most elegant, complex, and subtle; but without the frank grossness of many of his contemporaries, he would not have been able to achieve his original strokes. The most important of his immediate predecessors is William Wycherley. The play where Wycherley deals with a delicate problem—sexual impotence—with an admirable lack of delicacy is The Country Wife (1675). Jack Horner (i.e., cuckold-maker), returning from abroad, pretends to have become a eunuch so husbands will leave their wives alone in his company with complete confidence. His plan works splendidly—only too well, in fact, until it threatens to explode when Horner invites Lady Fidget to see his collection of "china." She locks the door behind them, and her husband, Sir Jasper Fidget, arrives. He wants to know if there is another way to get into the room. The scene continues and builds to a grand climax; here is a much abridged version:
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Blogger said that they are in the process of restoring posts that were removed.
Technical failure?
I watched a video on the egyptian uprising, and when one of the bloggers was arrested, he still posted on his blog by slipping out pieces of paper.
Would any of you be kind enough to do that for me? Pretty pleasee ;-)
Not to say I'd like that, but you know, in this line of work we have to prepare for contigencies.
Me and my anti-establishment leanings. Heh.
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| 13.2°C Belfast
A 12-year-old schoolgirl and her 13-year-old boyfriend are believed to have become Britain's youngest parents.
She became pregnant at the age of 11 and gave birth to a girl weighing 7lb 4oz on Sunday. Being 12 years and three months old makes her five months younger than the previous youngest mother, Tressa Middleton, who gave birth in Edinburgh in 2006, according to The Sun.
A source told the newspaper: "The baby's mum and dad have been in a relationship for more than a year, so this isn't a fleeting romance. They intend to stick together and bring their daughter up together.
"They're very into each other, totally in love. She's in Year 7, he's in Year 9 at a different school."
April Webster and Nathan Fishbourne, the previous youngest parents, were 14 when their son Jamie was born in Caerphilly, South Wales, in 2010.
The new mother was 10 when she met her boyfriend. The pair, from north London, cannot be named for legal reasons. The schoolgirl lives with her mother, who is 27, and is supportive of the couple.
Yesterday, the new mother went to a register office to register the birth with her own mother and another woman.
Her classmates were "shocked" when they heard she had had a baby as she did not look pregnant right up until last month when she was still going to school, the Sun was told.
Hilary Pannack, chief executive of teenage pregnancy charity Straight Talking, said: "I know girls who've been pregnant at 13 and have had the baby, and I've heard of 12-year-olds before.
"It costs £100,000 to the taxpayer to support the average teenage mother in the first five years - it is a reason but is not the primary reason to stop teenage pregnancy, which is that we are talking about young people's lives.
"We need to stop the cycle of teenage parents having children who are more likely to become teenage parents themselves."
On youngsters having sex at such an early age, she said: "In the same way that young people understand how to smoke a cigarette, they may not necessarily be concerned with the implications. They do not necessarily think they could get cancer, they think they are immortal and it will not happen to them.They just do not understand the implications of early parenthood and they do not understand the responsibilities.
"It is not the end of their lives but they will be dependent on their parents for a long time and the state in the future because they do not have the qualifications and they may not stay together."


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Ever since Meghan Cox Gurdon accused young adult literature of being "too dark" in a Wall Street Journal editorial last June, authors, readers, and other people whose coming of age did not take place inside of a magical bubble of rainbows and unicorns, fired back, citing the innumerable reasons why teens enjoy dark fiction and why this is okay. So I feel no need to add this dialogue.
But, I will admit that I often gravitated toward the dark side when it comes to my choice of entertainment, and never so much as during my teen years. Back then I wore lots of black. I listened to The Smiths and The Cure. I read the Flowers in the Attic series in fifth and sixth grade and as a junior and senior I poured through Jerzy Kosinski's novels. So when it came to movies, for every viewing of Dirty Dancing and Breakfast Club—which, as you may remember, are not without their bleak moments—there was also a Heavenly Creatures or a Harold and Maude.
And so, my dear teens, if you dare to step outside your normal world (which, no doubt is problem-free and smells like daydreams and bubblegum) I offer this list. Some of these films are old enough that I watched them back when I was a teenager. Others are more recent. And lest you think I'm forgetting about such dark and twisted cinematic greats as A Clockwork Orange or Brazil or Blue Velvet, keep in mind that this list is specific to teens and the teenage experience. Enjoy!
Ten (Moody) Must-See Films for Teenagers
(All synopses stolen from www.imdb.com )
1. THE VIRGIN SUICIDES – A group of male friends become obsessed with a group of mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents after one of them commits suicide.
Here's the trailer. The soundtrack by Air says it all.
2. HEATHERS – A girl who half-heartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics.
Six words: I love my dead gay son.
3. HEAVENLY CREATURES – Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
My favorite Peter Jackson film (I don't like Lord of the Rings, so shoot me) stars a young Kate Winslet and the always extraordinary Melanie Lynskey.
4. PARANOID PARK – A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard.
Directed by the brilliant Gus Van Sant, this film will haunt you for days. Paranoid Park perfectly captures that horrible sinking feeling that comes from carrying the burden of a terrible secret. Though thankfully, I've ever had a secret quite this terrible.
5. THE OUTSIDERS –When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
It's unusual when a film is as good as the book that it's based on, but I guess that's when happens when you get Francis Ford Copolla to direct. It's also one of my favorite books from my teen years, so if you haven't read it, you might want to do that first. This trailer is kind of dated, but you may recognize some familiar faces in it.
6. BRICK – A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
Film noir meets high school. Love it!
7. HAROLD AND MAUDE – Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
One of my favorite films of all time. My 10th grade English teacher showed it to us in class. Go Mrs. Hallal!
8. KIDS by Larry Clarke – An amoral, HIV-positive skateboarder sets out to deflower as many virgins as possible while a local girl who contracted his disease tries to save his next target from her same fate.
This film is probably the bleakest portrayal of teen life I have ever seen. Watch with caution and shower immediately afterwards.
9. THE GRADUATE – Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father's business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her teenage daughter, Elaine.
OK, so it's not technically a teen film since Ben's just graduated from college. But it's close enough.
10. THE SWEET HEREAFTER – This film documents the effects of a tragic bus accident on the population of a small town.
Boy, how I loves me some Atom Egoyan (director) and Sarah Polley. This is quite possibly the saddest movie ever made.


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The Crisis in the Education of Latino Students
By Patricia Gándara, Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, University of California–Los Angeles
This article (from a forthcoming Patricia Gándara book1 ) addresses three questions—
- Is there really a Latino education crisis, or is it just a passing phenomenon attributable to recent high immigration?
- If there is a crisis, what are its dimensions and what has caused it?
- What are some of the policies that we must consider to effectively address the crisis?
The most urgent problem for the American education system has a Latino face. Latinos are the largest and most rapidly growing ethnic minority in the country, but, academically, they are lagging dangerously far behind their non-Hispanic peers. For example, upon entering kindergarten 42% of Latino children are found in the lowest quartile of performance on reading readiness compared to just 18% of White children.2 By 4th grade, 16% of Latino students are proficient in reading according to the 2005 NAEP, compared to 41% of White students.3 A similar pattern is notable at the 8th grade, where only 15% of Latinos are proficient in reading compared to 39% of Whites.4
With respect to college completion, only 11% of Latinos 25 to 29 years of age had a BA or higher compared to 34% of Whites. Perhaps most distressing, however, is the fact that no progress has been made in the percentage of Latinos gaining college degrees over a 20-year period, while other groups have seen significant increases in degree completion.
Percentage of 25–29-Year-Olds Having Completed a BA or Higher, by Ethnicity
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The Latino education crisis is not simply a result of immigration. Successive generations of Latinos do tend to outperform their parents, if those parents are very undereducated.5 In 21st-century America, however, it is not sufficient for each generation to advance from a 6th grade education to an 8th grade education and so forth. Educational progress for Latinos has for the most part stalled at high school, with virtually no progress made beyond that point.
Some scholars have noted that Americanization is bad for immigrants (as opposed to immigrants being bad for America). Based on data from over 2,400 8th- and 9th-grade immigrant students in the San Diego, California, area, Rubén Rumbaut concluded that "Americanization processes, all other things being equal...may be counterproductive for educational achievement."6 A number of other studies have similarly found what is often referred to as "immigrant optimism" that factors into the surprisingly higher educational achievement of many immigrant students than their native-born, co-ethnic peers.7 But the overwhelming majority of Latino students are native-born, and, in spite of the recent large increase in Latino immigration, the native-born population is still growing at a faster rate than is immigration.8 Therefore, the low educational attainment of Latino students is not just the result of large numbers of undereducated immigrants entering the public school system. Rather, it is the result of circumstances encountered by Latino students who were born in this country.
Dimensions of the Crisis
This lack of progress in college completion augurs poorly not just for Latinos, but for the society as a whole. Almost one in five students across the country is Latino; by 2050 one in three will be.9 In 2008, about 48% of public school students in California are Latino, about 46% in Texas, about 20% in New York. These students will form the workforce in the immediate future. The Center for Public Policy and Higher Education10 has projected that if the state of California does not immediately begin preparing more underrepresented students for higher education, by 2020 the state will experience an 11% drop in per capita income, resulting in serious economic hardship for the people of California. Arizona, Texas, and other states with high percentages of Latinos are also projected to see declines in per capita income over the period, although none so steep as California because of its very large and undereducated Latino population. To understand the impact of such a decline in per capita earnings, it is useful to know that the present day economy of California is the result of a 30% increase in per capita income since 1980.11 As there is no evidence of an imminent turnaround in the rate at which Latino students are either graduating from high school or obtaining college degrees, it appears that there is clearly both a regional and national catastrophe at hand.
Cause of the Crisis
It would be simplistic to attribute the cause of the Latino education crisis to any single factor. It's clearly the result of a complex web of social, economic, and educational conditions—inadequate social services, families with exceptionally low human and social capital, a polarizing economy with few entry level jobs that provide a living wage and benefits available to those without higher education or special skills, and schools that lack the resources to meet many students' most basic educational needs. Language difference is commonly perceived to be the primary educational barrier for Latino students, and, unfortunately, most attention has been placed on debates over what kind of language program to provide. This distracts educators and others from the more important questions about educational quality. While language is an issue for some Latino students, it's not the critical issue. A recent study12 found that English Learners (primarily Latinos) received an inferior education along seven different dimensions, even when compared to other poor and low-income students. Chief among the educational inequities suffered are teachers unprepared to address their needs.
What Policies Must Be Considered to Address the Crisis?
A review of research on effective strategies for supporting the healthy development of children from birth to young adulthood yields a series of target areas for policy development, including—
- Begin cognitive enrichment early. Early intervention, if sustained over time, can change the intellectual development of children. The evidence suggests, though, that this early intervention needs to extend beyond the classroom, involving the homes of preschool children, helping their parents to understand the demands of school and how practices in the home can work hand in hand with the goals of schooling. Most important of all are literacy practices in the home—reading to and with children and also talking to them about ideas and inviting their curiosity about the world. Many low-income Latino parents have come to believe that they cannot help their children learn because they haven't experienced much formal education themselves, or because they don't speak English, and their skills and abilities are often overlooked by schools. Research shows, however, that such parents can and should be critical educators for their children. Policies that enable them to do so in their primary language—and that support them while they do it—could greatly assist students' learning. There is a critical role for teachers and schools in helping parents to support their children's schooling.
- Establish housing policies that help desegregate neighborhoods and schools, and build social capital in the Latino community. It has been argued that housing is the fulcrum of opportunity, linked to many factors critical to the success of adults and children in American society. Such factors include access to good schools, but they also include "wealth, healthy and safe environments, positive peer groups for children, good local health care, convenient access to areas of greatest job growth, high-quality public services, networks to jobs and college, and many other forms of opportunity."13 Unfortunately, Latino students are even more segregated into low-income, low-opportunity neighborhoods in the western U.S. than Black students. Changing school boundaries, providing racially and SES-balanced magnet schools, and providing transfer opportunities to attend two-way language programs are among the many options schools can employ to help desegregate Latino students. There are also powerful social policies that can more radically change housing segregation. While such policies are not in the hands of schools to enact, teachers and school districts can give voice to the need for such policies and can cooperate with city and county government to implement them.
- Integrate social services. A number of attempts have been made at state and regional levels to provide integrated health and social services for low-income students through cooperative arrangements between schools and county and regional health and welfare agencies. Such efforts have not been without challenges. But there is also evidence that, when implemented well, they can have substantially positive effects on children's physical and mental well-being, which can be at least indirectly related to schooling outcomes. Schools can spearhead these efforts.
- Prepare and recruit specifically qualified teachers. Teachers must be given the specialized tools they need to be successful with Latino populations, and, contrary to the oft-heard mantra that good schools are good schools for all children, some additional and different things must be present in schools that serve this population. Teachers must have skills and the means for communicating with Latino parents and enlisting them as allies. They must be able to communicate with and motivate their Latino students. They must understand the circumstances of the students' lives and histories. Critically, teachers must know how to provide deep, rich, and intellectually challenging instruction that pushes students to excel and, simultaneously, builds on the fund of knowledge that resides in students' communities. In the words of Michael Martinez,14 they must be able to cultivate intelligence, not just the acquisition of knowledge. They must be able to help children learn to think deeply and creatively about problems, and they must be able to build on the foundations of learning that students bring with them to school. This also implies that teachers must be given the autonomy to exercise their professional judgment and expertise in the classroom. Although most Latino students speak English, many come from families and communities that primarily speak Spanish, and most teachers have difficulty communicating with students' families and thus enlisting their support. In a recent survey of 5,300 teachers in California, we found this inability to communicate with parents to be the single greatest concern of teachers of English Language Learners.15 The fact that most Latino students come from backgrounds where mainstream and academic English are not spoken places them at an educational disadvantage that must be attended to with specific pedagogical strategies. Moreover, many of these students are labeled (reclassified) "fluent English proficient," R-FEP, when only yesterday or last week they were considered English Language Learners. Their language development in English must beviewed as occurring along a continuum that will require many years, and teachers need to be skilled at assessing and addressing those linguistic needs.
Teachers from the same communities as their students are not only much more likely to understand their students' challenges, they are also more likely to remain teaching in the same schools, developing expertise and gaining experience.16 Of course there is a problem in that so few Latinos successfully make it through the college pipeline that the prospective teacher pool is small. Providing incentives for Latinos to go into teaching would be good public policy, and should include tuition-free college and teacher preparation for those who serve the public schools in these communities—one-year free tuition for each year of successful teaching. Teachers from these communities should also be helped to purchase a home in the community through low interest, low down-payment home ownership programs. The costs of the proposed incentives to attract and retain these teachers are small by comparison to the lost tax-payer investment in teachers who leave the classroom early in their careers out of frustration and a desire to find a better paying or less stressful job in a more affluent part of the city. There is no consensus in the field on the critical competencies that teachers must have to effectively meet these students' needs. The field needs to develop this consensus.
- Exploit the comparative advantage of many Latino students. If the U.S. is not to be left (further) behind in the education race in a globalizing economy, the ability of its people to work and interact across cultural and linguistic borders will become increasingly important. The notion of speaking a language other than English as an educational liability must be turned on its head. Languages must be seen as resources, as invaluable human capital, and as doorways to enhanced cognitive skills. This is the one area in which many Latino students arrive at school with an advantage over their non-Hispanic peers. It can be exploited for their educational benefit and that of their peers with whom they can share this asset.
Numerous studies of the academic and linguistic achievement of students in dual language programs, compared with similar students who are in English-only programs, find that in the two-way immersion students either perform as well as those students in English-only (as well as knowing another language) or they outperform the English-only students, across all academic areas. 17 Moreover, students in two-way or dual immersion programs tend to have more positive attitudes toward non-English languages and cultures and exhibit better intercultural relations with students who speak other languages. That is, these programs appear to prepare students better for the global village.18 Wherever possible, such programs should be promoted for the benefit of both Latino and non-Latino students to enhance cognitive and linguistic abilities.
1. Excerpted from my forthcoming, The Latino Education Crisis: The Consequences of Failed Social Policies (with F. Contreras), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2. Based on NCES data reported for the ECLS 1998 kindergarten sample.
3. Analyses of 2005 NAEP data.
4. Ibid.
5. James Smith (2003) argues that intergenerational mobility among Mexican immigrants is far greater than most studies have shown because they have examined the issue cross-sectionally, by looking at the education levels of first, second, and third generation group means in the same time period. Smith asserts that it is necessary to look backwards, charting grandparents, parents, and children's mean education levels to get a sense of the mobility that has occurred over time. While this argument makes some sense, it is flawed in that social and educational conditions have changed radically over time, and mobility in a prior time may be neither sufficient to keep pace with current labor market demands, nor replicated in the contemporary context. Nonetheless, we agree that some progress does occur across the generations. This is not in dispute.
6. Rumbaut, 1995, p. 52.
7. See, for example, Kao and Tienda, 1995; Suárez-Orozco and Suárez-Orozco, 1995.
8. Pew Hispanic Center, based on 2005 American Community Survey data.
9. Passel and Cohn, 2008.
10. These projections are based on recent work by Patrick Kelly of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS).
11. The series of reports for 10 states and the nation as a whole can be found at the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education Web site.
12. Gándara et al., 2003.
13. Orfield and McArdle, 2006.
14. Martinez, 2000.
15. Gándara, Maxwell-Jolly, and Driscoll, 2004.
16. Murnane et al., 1991.
17. See discussion of this topic in Genesee et al., 2006, especially pages 200–205.
18. See Genesee and Gándara, 1999, for a discussion of the issue of intercultural relations and attitudes toward other language speakers.
Gándara, P., R. Rumberger, J. Maxwell-Jolly, and R. Callahan. 2003. "English Learners in California Schools: Unequal Resources, Unequal Outcomes." Educational Policy Analysis Archives. Downloaded March 10, 2008, from the Educational Policy Analysis Archives Web site.
Gándara, P., J. Maxwell-Jolly, and A. Driscoll. 2005. Listening to Teachers of English Learners. Santa Cruz, CA: Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning.
Genesee, F., K. Lindholm-Leary, W. Saunders, and D. Christian. 2006. Educating English Language Learners: A Synthesis of Research Evidence. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Genesee, F., and P. Gándara. 1999. "Bilingual Education Programs: A Cross-National Perspective." Journal of Social Issues 55: 665–685.
Kao, G., and M. Tienda. 1998. "Educational Aspirations of Minority Youth." American Journal of Education 106(3): 349–384.
Martinez, M. 2000. Education as the Cultivation of Intelligence . Mahwah, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum.
Murnane, R.J., J.D. Singer, J. B. Willett, J.J. Kemple, and R.J. Olsen. 1991. Who Will Teach?: Policies that Matter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College.
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. 2005. "Income of U.S. Workforce Projected to Decline if Education Doesn't Improve." Downloaded March 10, 2008, from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education Policy Alert (PDF, 8pp.).
Orfield, G., and N. McArdle. 2006. The Vicious Cycle: Segregated Housing, Schools, and Intergenerational Inequality. Cambridge: Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University. Downloaded March 10, 2008, from the Civil Rights Project of Harvard University paper (PDF, 69pp.)
Passel, J., and D. Cohn. 2008. "U.S. Population Projections: 2005–2050." Pew Hispanic Center. Downloaded March 10, 2008, from the
Pew Hispanic Center report.
Rumbaut, R. 1995. "The New Californians: Comparative Research Findings on the Educational Progress of Immigrant Children." In R. Rumbaut and W. Cornelius, eds., California's Immigrant Children: Theory, Research, and Implications for Educational Policy. La Jolla, CA: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California–San Diego. Pages 17–70.
Smith, P.J. 2003. "Assimilation Across the Latino Generations." American Economic Review 93(2): 315–319.
Suárez-Orozco, C.M., and M. Suárez-Orozco. 1996. Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation among Latino Adolescents. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
About Patricia Gándara
Patricia Gándara is Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California–Los Angeles. Having earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from UCLA, she recently returned there after many years. She has been a bilingual school psychologist, a social scientist with the RAND Corporation, director of education research in the California Legislature(State Assembly), Commissioner for Post-secondary Education for the State of California, and Professor of Education at the University of California–Davis for 16 years. She is currently Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA and Associate Director of the UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute.
Patricia's research focuses on educational equity and access for low-income and ethnic minority students, language policy, and the education of Mexican origin youth. She has just completed a study, with her colleague Russell Rumberger, entitled Resource Needs for California's English Learners, as part of the statewide adequacy project funded by four major foundations. She is the author of numerous articles and several books, including the forthcoming, The Latino Education Crisis: The Consequences of Failed Social Policies, with Harvard University Press. A selection of other publications includes—
Gándara, P.,and R. Rumberger. Forthcoming. "Defining an Adequate Education for English Learners." Education Finance and Policy.
Gándara, P., and M.C. Gómez. Forthcoming. "Language Policy in Education." In B. Schneider, G. Sykes, and D. Plank, eds. AERA Handbook on Educational Policy Research. Washington DC: AERA.
Gándara, P., and R. Rumberger. In press. "Immigration, Language, and Education: How Does Language Policy Structure Opportunity?" Teachers College Record.
Rumberger, R., and P. Gándara. 2007. "Resource Needs for Educating Linguistic Minority Students." In H.F. Ladd and E.B. Fiske, eds. Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy. New York: Routledge.
Abedi, J., and P. Gándara. 2006. "Performance of English Language Learners as a Subgroup in Large-Scale Assessment: Interaction of Research and Policy." Educational Measurement Issues and Practice 25:36–46.
Maxwell-Jolly, J., and P. Gándara. 2006. "Critical Issues in the Preparation of Teachers for English Learners." In E. Burr et al., eds. Crucial Issues in California Education 2000. Berkeley: PACE.
Gándara, P. 2006. "Fragile Futures: Risk and Vulnerability among Latino High Achievers." Policy Brief. Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.
Gándara, P., and J. Maxwell-Jolly. 2005. "Critical Issues in the Development of the Teacher Corps for English Learners." In H. Waxman, H. Tellez, and K. Tellez, eds. Preparing Quality Teachers for English Language Learners. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Gándara, P., R. Moran, and E. Garcia. 2004. "Legacy of Brown: Lau and Language Policy in the United States." Review of Research in Education 28: 27–46.
Callahan, R., and P. Gándara, P. 2004. "Nobody's Agenda: English Learners and Post-secondary Education." In M. Sadowski, ed. Immigrant and English-Language Learners: Strategies for Success. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Rumberger, R., and P. Gándara. 2004. "Seeking Equity in the Education of California's English Learners." Teachers College Record 106: 2031–2055.
Gándara, P., R. Rumberger, J. Maxwell-Jolly, and R. Callahan. 2003. "English Learners in California Schools: Unequal Resources, Unequal Outcomes."
Educational Policy Analysis Archives.
About the Visiting Scholars Series
NEA Research periodically hosts the Visiting Scholars Series as a forum intended to help link policy initiatives with educational scholarship. Prominent scholars are asked to link their research to recommendations for closing achievement gaps. This article, a research brief from the Spring 2008 forum, is from a forthcoming Patricia Gándara book.
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This article, The Crisis in the Education of Latino Students, by Patricia Gándara, Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, University of California–Los Angeles, is a Research Brief from the NEA Research Visiting Scholars Series, Spring 2008, vol. 1a.


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This image shows a particular optical illusion that confronts us every day. Notice the difference between the black text on a white background and the reverse. With reversed type — light text on a darker background — the strokes seem bolder.
Black text on white is very familiar, so we can be forgiven for thinking it correctly proportioned. For familiarity's sake we can say it is, but there are two effects happening here: The white background bleeds over the black, making the strokes seem thinner. With reversed type the opposite is true: The white strokes bleed over the black, making it seem bolder.
Punched, backlit letters on a sign outside the Nu Hotel, Brooklyn.
One of the most obvious examples of this is with signs where the letters are punched into the surround then lit from inside. In his article, Designing the ultimate wayfinding typeface, Ralph Herrmann used his own Legibility Text Tool to simulate this effect for road and navigational signs.
One might say that characters are only correctly proportioned with low-contrast. Although objective reality hails that as true, it isn't a good reason to always set type with low contrast. Type designers have invariably designed around optical illusions and the constraints of different media for us. Low-contrast text can also create legibility and accessibility problems. Fortunately, kind folks like Gez Lemon have provided us with simple tools to check.
As fascinating as optical illusions are — the disturbing, impossible art of Escher comes to mind — we can design around reversed body type. On the Web, increasing tracking and leading are as simple as increasing the mis-named
letter-spacing and
line-height in CSS. However, decreasing font weight is a thornier problem. Yes, we will be able to use @font-face to select a variant with a lighter weight, but the core web fonts offer us no options, and there are only a few limited choices with system fonts like Helvetica Neue.
Reversing a logotype
For logotype there are plenty of options, but it makes me slightly uncomfortable to consider switching to a lighter font for reversed type logos. The typeface itself is not the logotype; the variant is, so switching font could be tricky. Ironically, I'd have to be very sure that that was no perceivable difference using a lighter weight font. Also, with display faces, there's often not a lighter weight available — a problem I came across designing the Analog logo.
The original Analog logo seen here is an adapted version of Fenway Park by Jason Walcott (Jukebox Type).
The logotype worked well when testing it in black on white. However, I wanted a reversed version, too. That's when I noticed the impact of the optical illusion:
(Reversed without any adjustment.)
It looked bloated! Objective reality be damned; it simply wouldn't do. After a few minutes contemplating the carnage of adjusting every control point by hand, I remembered something; eureka!
(Reversed then punched.)
Punching the paths through a background image in Fireworks CS4 removed the illusion. (Select both the path and the background then using Modify > Combine Paths > Punch.) Is this a bug? I don't know, but if it is, it's a useful one for a change!
Modify > Combine Paths > Punch in Fireworks CS4.
N.B. I confess I haven't tested this in any other Adobe products, but perhaps you will be so bold? ('scuse the pun. :)
I grinned. I was happy. All was well with the world again. Lovely! Now I could go right ahead and think about colour and I wouldn't be far from done. This is how it emerged:
A final note on logotype design & illusions
Before we even got to actual type for the Analog logo, we first had to distill what it would convey. In our case, Alan took us through a process to define the brand values and vision. What emerged were keywords and concepts that fed into the final design. The choice of type, colour, and setting were children of that process. Style is the offspring of meaning.
I always work in greyscale for the first iterations of a new logo for a few simple reasons:
- The form has to work independently of colour — think printing in greyscale or having the logo viewed by people with a colour-impairment.
- It allows for quick testing of various sizes — small, high contrast versions will emphasise rendering and legibility issues at screen resolutions, especially along curves.
- I like black and white. :)
I realise that in this day and age the vast majority of logos need to perform primarily on the Web. However, call me old-fashioned, but I still think that they should work in black and white, too.
Brands and display faces emerged with consumer culture during the 19th Century. Logotypes were displayed prominently in high streets, advertising hoardings, and on sign boards. In many instances the message would be in black and white. They were designed to be legible from a distance, at a glance, and to be instantly recognisable. Even with colour, contrast was important.
The same is true for the Web today; only the context has changed, and the popularity of logomarks and icons. We should always test any logo at low resolutions and sizes, and the brand must still have good contrast (regardless of WCAG 2.0) to be optimal. A combination of colour and form works wonders, but in a world of a million colours where only a handful are named in common parlance, having the right form still seems a smarter choice than trying to own a palette or colour.
A final word
This article was prompted by a happy accident followed by a bit of reading. There are many references to optical illusions in design and typography books. The example image at the start of this article was inspired by one found in the excellent Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger. There's also plenty of online material about optical or visual illusions you can dive into. There's also more on how the eye processes light. Oh, and don't forget the work of M. C. Escher!
Human eyes are amazing. In two sets of watery bags we get a wide-angle lens with incredibly sharp focus and ridiculous depth of field. Apparently our brain is even clever enough to compensate for the lag in the signal getting from retina to cortex. I know next to nothing about ocular science. Spending a morning reading and thinking about optical illusions, and contemplating my own view here in the garden office is pretty awe-inspiring. If only my photographs were as good as my eyes, illusions or no.


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Protecting Assets & Eliminating Debt
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Should I File Even If I'm Current On My Debts? Do I Qualify?
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It's night five of The Voice battle rounds and its a toss up between the sexes — for the most part. Some of the strongest vocalists battle it out with their counterpart, but which sex will stand out among the other?
Team Cee Lo :: Alexis Marceaux vs. Daniel Rosa
Singing: Adam Lambert "What Do You Want Form Me"
Warm-Up: Classically trained Alexis goes head to head with Daniel, who proves to be much more determined his second time around. The song choice was perfect for the two, who emit an indie vibe. Rob Thomas stopped in to offer the candidates some constructive criticism. He said that Alexis used too much diction for this particular song and needs to find her edgy rock inner sounds. Cee Lo tells Alexis that her training might put her at a disadvantage. On the other hand, Daniel needs to let go of any fears and believe in himself as he doubts he can hit the high notes. Not one to play it safe, Cee Lo tells Daniel that the real reward is in the risk taking.
The Battle: The passion that Alexis and Daniel have is initially evident as emotion drips from their vocals. The two make a dynamic pair vocally. Alexis has a softer and deeper voice than Daniel giving her a soulful feel. Daniel's voice is distinctively unique in its ability to be both calm and raspy at the same time. He was definitely hitting all of the high notes and being as powerful as he could. Physical emotional reactions were also present in Daniel's performance.
Winner: Daniel Rosa
Team Adam :: Brandon Mahon vs. Nicole Nelson
Singing: Marvin Gaye "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
Warm-Up: Adam believes that matching up Brandon and Nicole is the recipe for a perfect duet, because Brandon is scared and Nicole is just so nurturing. Brandon revealed that the reason he is even competing is to help out his family. Mary J. helps build up Brandon's confidence by relating to his tough upbringing. And reminding him that he has to believe that everything he went through was to get him to this moment. Will Brandon's old soul and gift beat Nicole?
The Battle: The pair graced the stage with lots of energy and were the only competitors that looked like they were having fun during their performance. Brandon had a strong start that lasted throughout the entire song with his Motown voice and charm. His stage presence was definitely notable. Nicole also blew everyone away with her powerful high notes and ability to draw from her emotions.
Winner: Nicole Nelson
Team Christina :: Devyn DeLoera vs. MarissaAnn
Singing: En Vogue "Free Your Mind"
Warm-Up: Christina advised strong minded Devyn and MarissaAnn that they need to learn to mesh together, because they both have powerful voices and can reach high notes. The key is to find moments to be strong vocally and when to let it go. Lets see if the girls were able to play nice on the stage or will it just sound like a cat fight?
The Battle: Devyn and MarissaAnn belt out those notes channeling their team leader Christina. Both competitors have strong voices and were evenly matched. This was an impressive battle as the girls had similar sounds making the harmonies sound amazing. MarissaAnn has such a mature voice for a 15-year-old, while Devyn had a cooler approach. However, there were some moments where the vocals sounded forced and whiny.
Winner: Devyn DeLoera
STEAL: Blake is just blown away by MarissaAnn's voice considering she is only 15-years-old and can't pass up the opportunity to take her under his wing.
-Maria Bonello, 92.3 NOW/New York
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Yeshivah Bakers Jewish Holiday Cupcake Wars, 2011- Re-Cap!
On Wednesday, November 16, the Sephardic Community Center hosted hundreds of community women to gather and soak up the talents of the celebrity bakers that reside within the Syrian Jewish community. Never before have all of our expert "Jewish Hostesses" mommy bakers gathered in one place for a friendly fundraising competition.
This day of unity featured the creative baking expertise of six teams consisting of 2-3 yeshiva moms, each team representing a different community school.
Each team was given a Jewish holiday theme (which was chosen at random), in which they had to create a cupcake from scratch that represented that theme. I was lucky enough to be chosen as a one of the judges (I think I gained about 3 pounds that day- but it was SO worth it!!!!) for the competition, along with Claudia Bildiricci (of the famous "LOTTIE BISCOTTI") and Katy Zanville of Sprinkles Cupcakes, NYC.
The clock struck at 12:15, and the girls flurried about in organized precision, rolling, baking, fitting, topping, and assembling their cupcake themed displays.As their masterpieces began to take shape, you could hear the "oohs and aahhs" among the crowd of amazed women. In 90 minutes they would be judged by their creativity, adherance to the theme of the holiday, and deliciousness of their cupcakes.
While the bakers were hard at work, the hungry audience was ushered into a fabulous lunch bar that was catered by A Kosher Affair. A gorgeous turquoise themed chinese auction full of tempting gifts for every Jewish Hostess had tons of tickets stuffed into each box, each one awaiting a lucky winner.
Though these events seemingly fall into place SO easily, we all know that it takes women like Lisa Elo and Linda Sasson who can defy the conventional. and pull a monumental gathering like this together. Another thanks to our MCs for the day- Gail Mizrahi, Lynda Levy, and Linda Sasson.
Please comment below and mention everyone that I may have forgotten to thank!
So now, the moment you've been waiting for!!!! First of all, let me introduce you to some real Jewish Hostesses in every sense of the word!
Susie Sorscher, Margalit Dweck, Melissa Soffer
Sari Rishty, Alexis Cohen
Jamie Bailey, Sarah Dweck, Jennifer Terzi
Sharon Haber, Mary Sutton, Tunee Mizrahi
Frieda Cohen Fortune Nakash, Fortune Farca
Sherri Gindi, GLadys Haddad, Linda Sasson, Lisa Elo
Judges Katy Zanville, Claudia Bildiricci, and Me
MCs Gail Mizrahi, Lynda Levy
I wish that I could have uploaded ALL of the gorgeous pictures taken by Mark Greenberg that day but the pics below were the best ones!
And NOW……. for the CUPCAKES!!!!!
Passover By Hillel Yeshivah bakers was displayed as a petite seder plate atop a silver star shaped dish. The girls created their very own mini gold pillow, wine cup, celery dipped in salt water and charoset out of home-made modeling chocolate. The cupcake was a unique fleur de sel "red" velvet (representing the river of blood on Passover!) cupcake with yummy coconut cream cheese frosting (get it? Cream cheese on matzo….) Great Job, Girls!!!!
Barkaii Yeshivah bakers displayed a fabulous Achashverosh Crown shaped vanilla vodka (for the liquor on Purim….) flavored cupcake. The filling had a tinge of whiskey flavor which added to the authenticity of this delicious Purim dessert. The clever use of the upside down champagne glass, the mask, and fondant megillah really amazed the crowd!
The Yeshivah Derech Eretz yeshivah bakers really captured the spirit of Simchat Torah by using fun filled ingredients like home made caramel, a peanut butter frosting, chocolate, M and Ms and nuts. Hand made steps leading up to a torah hid their surprise candy cupcake. Thank you girls for sharing your wonderful talents with us!
Magen David Yeshivah's glamourous hand made menorah and fondant candles spread Happy Hanukah vibes throughout the crowd. Gleaming handpainted chocolates and fondant soufganiyot graced the mirrored tray and looked too good to eat! The "present themed" cupcake was actually a scrumptious jelly doughnut cupcake- I hope that the Magen David bakers will share this Hanukah cupcake recipe with us! Thank You, girls!!!
And now for the talented Shaare Torah Sukkot bakers! This unique vanilla date cupcake (dates representing the lulav, which grows on the date tree) was filled with a citrus curd flavored with etrog zest and etrog liquor . The topping was a light meringue frosting that symbolized the clouds that Hashem protected us with in the desert (WOW!). The whole intensely flavored cupcake was enclosed in a star (that we see through the bamboo sechach) cutout cupcake holder and sat atop a mini bamboo Sukkah.
Candied tangy etrog peel dipped in chocolate sat aside a shot of fizzy etrog liquor. (as a judge, I admit to drinking a shot in the middle of the day. For those of you who know me, they will tell you that I wasn't that much more fun…) The whole modern Sukkot ensemble was so enjoyable to view as well as to eat…. Thank you girls for all your hard work!
This jewel toned Rosh Hashanah ensemble was cleverly designed with several rounds of tree bark that were layered atop each other for a three dimensional , natural look. Apples, flowers and hand rolled and painted bumble bees really evoked that festive Rosh Hashanah holiday season. Apple cinnamon cupcakes filled with a cozy apple pie filling was topped off with cinnamon honey filled cream puffs and drizzled with caramel. Served with vanilla ice cream, this dessert really took the cake and was voted as the winner of $2600 for The Yeshivah of Flatbush! Mabrook to all the girls for a job very well done!!!
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Last week, I saw Dee Dee Myers, former White House press secretary, speak at a luncheon. She covered topics from her recent book, Why Women Should Rule the World, and touched on many issues that face women who speak -- or speak up. But the one that caught my ear was a story she told on herself, about how her friends reacted when she appeared on network television. And it was all about her hair. Her conclusion? "A bad hair day is like a virtual mute button" when you're a woman and you're speaking.
Myers had a way of making this audience of mostly women laugh (although the loudest laughs, I noticed, came from men in the audience), but she put her finger on an inconvenient truth when it comes to women and public speaking: The many ways in which women's appearance varies from men's makes them stand out, not always comfortably, when they put themselves forward to speak in public.
I call these the double-edged swords for women who speak in public. You can do more with your hairstyle, clothing, jewelry and overall appearance than can men...and yet, it's tough not to notice that men have plenty of appearance advantages, from flat shoes to a relatively uniform appearance code. Hairstyle's just one variable for women, and if you think it's not controversial, read this New York Times article (and many reader comments) on why middle-aged women can't wear their hair long. At the same time, those variations can be worked to one's advantage.
I liked Myers' easy way of acknowledging the issues, and yet I know there's no easy solution. How do you feel about your "virtual mute buttons" of appearance? Tell us in the comments. I'd love to hear how it makes you feel when you're speaking, any comments you've had from others and your thoughts on options.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
DeeDee Myers on speaker appearance: "Bad hair day=virtual mute button"
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Hello Mr. Sturm,
I submit to you the following proof that it was I who knew of Tony Romo's pending success way back in 2003. See the attached photo from the newpaper dated 5/1/2003 that I have kept in my briefcase since then, from Tony's hometown of Burlington, WI (also my hometown, and my grandmother mailed this to me). Since then, my 92 yr old Grandma keeps sending me the hometown clips everytime Tony makes news there....lately that's about every week.
I'll be in Burlington this coming weekend to visit family, and will going to a sports bar to watch the Cowboys. Should be interesting to see Cheeseheads cheer for the Cowboys.
Take care,
- P1 (& fellow Cheesehead) Jeff Weis in Frisco
Very cool. Thanks, Jeff.
And now, some outdated thoughts on the Stars:
Red Wings still own Stars
Surely, this is a few days old, but the subject matter of "how good are the Stars" has made its way into the conversation quite a bit recently. Although their start certainly has exceeded my expectations (which were quite minimal), there were numbers that I was reminded of after the Friday night loss to Detroit that made me a little crazy:
• Marty Turco is now 1-7-5 against Detroit in his career. This is the only Western Conference team he has a sub .500 record against.
• In 14 games, he has given up 3 goals or more 9 times vs. Det.
• Ken Hitchcock was 13-13-3 versus Detroit in his stay here; Dave Tippett is now 2-6-5.
Detroit may not be the king of the hill anymore, although it is too early to declare their death; but when it comes to Dallas playing them, the days of Hitch and Belfour are not being replaced very well by Tippett and Turco.
Mac looks at the 2nd Romo challenge …
Next up: at the Washington Redskins (2-5) and at the Arizona Cardinals (1-7).
The uncertainty that hung over the Cowboys for a week has moved on. The performance of first-time starting quarterback Tony Romo, and the entire team, was the evidence required to re-instill some confidence that had been shaken.
But the new task facing the Cowboys is guarding against over-confidence. After all, it was just one game.
"There is some demonstrated ability [in Romo] that always fosters that kind of belief. But, you know, anyone can land a lucky punch," Cowboys coach Bill Parcells said. "Or every once in a while, you're standing up there at the plate and they hit your bat. You didn't really hit the ball. They hit your bat."
Translation: Prove that you can hit it again.
Romo's stat line looks more like a hit than beginner's luck. He completed 24 of 36 passes for 270 yards with a touchdown and an interception. That adds up to 1-0 as a starter.
The Romo Effect was obvious: His teammates rallied around their baby-faced quarterback. From the offensive line to the defensive backs, everybody was a little bit better.
They had to be.
"We can't put [Romo] in terrible situations and act like he's going to be Johnny Unitas," James said. "We have to help him manage the game."
Immediately after the game, Cowboys owner/general manager/eternal optimist Jerry Jones did his best to put his child-like enthusiasm in a safe. He said one of the best things Romo did was not make the big mistake. But his own words betrayed him. Jones sounds like a man who thinks he might have stumbled on to something.
"We've got a chance to really do some good things," he said. "Everybody seems to have more confidence and play better when the future looks bright."
Tyson Thompson OUT …
Cowboys running back/kick returner Tyson Thompson will have surgery on his broken left ankle and miss the rest of the season.
Bill Parcells said the Cowboys will look into possibly signing a returner to replace
Veteran Aaron Glenn filled in for Thompson against Carolina and had one return for 14 yards. The Cowboys beat Carolina 35-14 Sunday night.
Thompson, of Irving, suffered the injury on a first-quarter return when he was
tackled out of bounds after a 37-yard return and the play drew an unnecessary roughness penalty. Thompson had two returns in the game for a 33.5 average.
Entering the Carolina game, Thompson was third in the NFC and ninth in the NFL in klckoff returns.
Bodog.com sent me these Mavs numbers:
I thought these Maverick and NBA odds may be of interest to you…They're courtesy of Bodog.
Team Odds
Odds to win the 2006-2007 NBA Championship
Dallas Mavericks 7/2
Odds to win the 2006-2007 Western Conference Championship
Dallas Mavericks 5/2
2006-07 NBA Regular Season Wins
Dallas Mavericks Ov. 56½ Regular Season Wins -115
Dallas Mavericks Un. 56½ Regular Season Wins -115
How many games will the Dallas Mavericks win against the San Antonio Spurs this regular season?
0 +300
1 +250
2 +160
3 +200
4 +350
How many times will Mark Cuban be fined by the NBA this season?
Over 2 -120
Under 2 -120
Player Performance Odds
How many PPG will Dirk Nowitzki average this season?
Over 26.7 -120
Under 26.7 -120
Who will lead the Dallas Mavericks in APG average by the end of the regular season?
Jason Terry +170
Devin Harris +180
Jerry Stackhouse +250
Anthony Johnson +325
Josh Howard +450
Dirk Nowitzki +500
Who will lead the Dallas Mavericks in 3 point percentage by the end of the regular season?
Dirk Nowitzki +180
Jason Terry +160
Josh Howard +200
Field (Any Other Player) +400
Place your bets now!
Gameday to Aggieland as a part of the huge weekend! …
The award-winning ESPN College GameDay, built by Home Depot, is heading to College Station, Texas, for this Saturday's (Nov. 4) football game between Texas A&M and Oklahoma. The two-hour show airs on ESPN beginning at 9 a.m. central. The football game is set to start at 7 p.m. central and will be shown on ABC.
More information and the exact location will be determined at a later time.
This marks the second trip to Aggieland for the trio of Chris Fowler, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit and the ESPN GameDay crew. The crew highlighted the Nov. 11, 2000, football game between these same two schools.
Cowboys Dark Side correspondent weighs in on Carolina-Dallas …
Bledsoe cracked back by Patriots media …
To this day, Drew Bledsoe believes Bill Belichick lied to him in 2001. It's obviously been a tough thing for Bledsoe to let go, because he brought it up when addressing the Dallas media last week upon officially losing the Cowboys' starting quarterback job to Tony Romo.
"The only thing I didn't like about that situation (in New England), that was different from this one, I felt like in that instance I was treated dishonestly," Bledsoe said. "In this situation. ... Bill (Parcells) was honest with me. We sat down and had a conversation about it and there was nothing dishonest about it."
Where's former colleague Kevin Mannix when you need him? The Professor had a name for Bledsoe and his loyal supporters/excuse makers, and now that Bledsoe has decided to dive back into history, perhaps it's time to set the record straight with the Boo Hoo Drew Crew.
Let's say Bledsoe is right and Belichick "lied" to him, telling the former franchise quarterback that he would have all the time he needed to win his job back from Tom Brady in November of 2001 after nearly being killed by the hellacious hit from Jets linebacker Mo Lewis. If Belichick did, in fact, say that, then he certainly didn't carry it out for long, because within a week of that alleged conversation, Belichick called both Bledsoe and Brady back into his office and told them Brady would be the starter the rest of the year.
Belichick had decided that it was unproductive to split practice reps. He realized you can't have two starting quarterbacks. Above all -- do we really need to go back over this? -- he knew that Brady was clearly the better player.
NY Times story on Parcells By Michael Lewis …Good story and all, but it is 17 pages!
American Movie Trailer (Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank)
Aggies Beat Oklahoma 2002
Ben Dawg and Dust get us back in the mood for Mavs Hoops:


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Robert Silas Thigpen (1849-1898)
Robert S. Thigpen was a wealthy Naval Stores manufacturer and a resident of Berrien County, Ga. In the 1890s he lived near Ray's Mill where he owned and operated a turpentine still.
Born Robert Silas Thigpen, August 13, 1849 he was a son of Dennis Thigpen, of South Carolina. It appears that R.S. Thigpen came to Georgia with his family from South Carolina when he was a young man, probably in the 1860s.
In 1880, R. S. Thigpen and his younger brother John Thigpen were living in the 1125 Georgia Militia District in Worth County. By that time, Robert was already a successful manufacturer of Naval Stores, in the comparatively new turpentine industry. The 1880 census non-population schedules show R.S. Thigpen owned a Tar & Turpentine Naval Stores operation valued at $6000. This turpentine still was situated on the Ty Ty Creek near Isabella, GA. The enumeration sheet shows Thigpen generally employed about 60 hands, who worked 10 hour days, year-round. Skilled workers received $1.50 a day, and ordinary laborers 65 cents. Thigpen's total annual payroll for the operation ran $5000 a year.
Georgia Property Tax Digests of 1890 show Robert S. Thigpen owned 843 acres in the Mud Creek district of Clinch county, Georgia Militia District 586, including all of lot 349 and parts of lots 486, 487, and 484. He was employing 70 workers in his operations there. He had $700 of merchandise on hand, $465 in household furnishings, $210 jewelry, $3200 in livestock, $225 in plantation and mechanical tools, $2810 in other property, all total valued at $13,800.
By 1894, Thigpen was manufacturing naval stores in Berrien County and had a turpentine still at Ray's Mill. One of the residents at the Thigpen property was Horace Cox. As a young man Cox had worked in a carriage shop, and was the son of a Berrien County mechanic, Samuel D. Cox.
In the summer of 1894, fire struck at Rays Mill.
Tifton Gazette
June 8, 1894 pg 1
The Thigpen mill near Rays Mill post office, Berrien county, was destroyed by fire one day last week.
On June 19, 1894 allegations of arson were made against Horace Cox by a committee of 110 citizens, who signed and published a petition against Cox in a paid advertisement in the Valdosta Times. Cox had been suspected of numerous arson cases in Berrien and Clinch counties. The accusers asked R.S. Thigpen to turn Cox out, although Thigpen had not signed the petition.
That Fall, Thigpen suffered another setback when he was thrown from a horse.
Tifton Gazette
November 2, 1894 Pg 1
Mr. R. S. Thigpen was thrown from a horse near Ray's mill last Sunday and two of his ribs were broken. The girt to his saddle broke and the saddle turning threw him off. He came to the city [Valdosta] in a carriage sent from here and is getting along well at present. – Valdosta Telescope. Mr. Thigpen is a citizen of Berrien County and lives near Ray's Mill.
Despite these hindrances, R.S. Thigpen continued with his operations at Ray's Mill.
Tifton Gazette
Aug 16, 1895 Pg 3
Milltown Mention
L. D. Liles has sold his mercantile interests to R. S. Thigpen. The stock will be moved to the latter's still near Ray's Mill.
In February of 1896 incendiaries again struck in Berrien County, this time burning the landmark Banks Mill at Milltown (now Lakeland). This time, Horace Cox was formally charged with the arson. (see Horace Cox and the Burning of Bank's Mill) But he was acquitted in the case, and afterwards he pursued a libel case against the Valdosta Times and the committee which had petitioned against him in 1894. Cox's lawsuit omitted any complaints against R.S. Thigpen.
Although the libel case Cox brought would continue to wind through the courts for another decade, Horace Cox's connection with R.S. Thigpen was severed later that year by yet another fire.
Tifton Gazette
November 6, 1896 Pg 1
The residence of Mr. Horace Cox, near Thigpen's still, was destroyed by fire, supposed to be of incendiary origin, last week. But little of the furniture was saved. There was no insurance.
Thigpen continued his turpentine still at Rays Mill and worked for public improvements to support his operation. The Tifton Gazette, Friday Sept 4, 1896 edition noted under "Green Bay Items:"
Mr. R.S. Thigpen is pushing to completion a bridge across Thigpen Bay, on the new public road running by way of Thigpen Still and H.H. Knight's. He has contracted to build the bridge for $200. Those who oppose the opening of the new road said it would cost $500 to build that bridge.
Over his life, R. S. Thigpen amassed sizable holdings in naval stores, including his properties at Ray's Mill, GA. He died on February 23,1898, and was buried at Sunset Hill Cemetery in Valdosta, Lowndes County, GA. The regional newspapers reported on the settlement of his estate:
Macon Telegraph,
April 17, 1898 Pg 1
Valdosta, Ga., April 16.
Judge W.H. Griffin, counsel for the administrator of the estate of the late R.S. Thigpen, has closed a trade for $35,000 of property in the estate. The turpentine plant at Rays mill was sold to W.F. Powell & Co. of North Carolina for $13,000 and naval stores stock to other parties for about $13,500. The still in this county near Naylor was sold for about $6,500. These large sales comprise only a minor part of the estate, but the good prices that were gotten for the property assures not only the solvency of the estate, but that the heirs will get a good deal from it.
Tifton Gazette
May 6, 1898 pg 4
Mr. W. F. Powell, of North Carolina, with his father has purchased the Thigpen turpentine plant at Ray's Mill from the estate of the late R. S. Thigpen. The deal was made last week and engineered by Judge W. H. Griffin, the attorney for the estate. Besides the valuable Ray's Mill property, the still at the Bamberg place was also sold. Henson, Bros. & Co., are the buyers, and it is understood that the price paid was about $6,500. {text illegible} 13,500 in naval stores stock {text illegible} ld, making about $35,000 {text illegible} n's property to change hands in the past few days. -Valdosta.
After the death of R.S. Thigpen, his wife and children made their home in Valdosta in a large house on Patterson Street.
Children of Sarah and Robert S. Thigpen:
- Annie Thigpen, b. December 1882
- Percy Thigpen, b. July 1886
- Fred Thigpen, b. August 1888
- Robert Silas Thigpen, Jr., b. May 1892
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